N35.021

Urethral stricture due to childbirth

Billable / specific

N35.021 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes in FY2027.

Excludes1

Not coded here — never report together with this code.

  • postprocedural urethral stricture (N99.1-) (from N35.0)
  • congenital urethral stricture (Q64.3-) (from N35)
  • postprocedural urethral stricture (N99.1-) (from N35)

Excludes2

Not included here — may be reported together when both conditions exist.

  • certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P04-P96) (from N35)
  • certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) (from N35)
  • complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O00-O9A) (from N35)
  • congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) (from N35)
  • endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E88) (from N35)
  • injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00-T88) (from N35)
  • neoplasms (C00-D49) (from N35)
  • symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (R00-R94) (from N35)
  • urinary infection (complicating): (from N35)
  • abortion or ectopic or molar pregnancy (O00-O07, O08.8) (from N35)
  • pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium (O23.-, O75.3, O86.2-) (from N35)

Also known as

  • Stricture, urethra, postobstetric
  • Stricture, urethra, sequelaof, childbirth

Parent code

  • N35.02Post-traumatic urethral stricture, femaleHeader

Related codes

  • N35.028Other post-traumatic urethral stricture, femaleBillable

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